The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...
When distributing 3D contents real-time over a network with a narrow bandwidth such as a telephone line, methods for streaming and data compression can be considered indispensable...
Toshiki Hijiri, Kazuhiro Nishitani, Tim Cornish, T...
In this paper we propose and evaluate the Adaptive++ technique, a novel runtime-only data prefetching strategy for software-based distributed shared-memory systems (software DSMs)...
Ricardo Bianchini, Raquel Pinto, Claudio Luis de A...
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular due to its quick response time, its ease of use, and possibility of multitasking. It is estimated that there are several mil...
: A buffer is a main-memory area used to reduce accessto disks. The buffer holds pages from secondary storage files. A processrequesting a page causesa fault if the pageis not in t...